technothriller
technothriller noun: a genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.
Noun
technothriller (plural technothrillers)
- A genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.
- The techno-thriller and its practitioners may be standing athwart. Tom Clancy, for one, made it clear to me that he has no interest in contemporary literature as Literature. He perennially scorns any salon environs.1993, William F. Ryan, “The Techno-Thriller”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Few filmmakers have his feel for the flux and transience of life as we live it, and his movies are especially eloquent in depicting the passage of time, whether it’s the one-year period of awkward realignments among a constellation of Parisian friends in “Late August, Early September” (1998) or the...2009 May 3, Dennis Lim, “In Familial Bric-a-Brac, Finding Himself”, in New York Times
Forms of technothriller
| plural | technothrillers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | techno-thriller |
Origin of technothriller
From techno- + thriller.
Questions about technothriller
- What does technothriller mean?
- Technothriller means a genre of thriller combining action, fantasy, and science fiction elements, including detailed technical explanations.
- What part of speech is technothriller?
- Technothriller is a noun.
- What is the plural of technothriller?
- The plural of technothriller is technothrillers.
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